Sectional bed-buttom.



Patented Aug. 2|, I900.

J. P. LEGGETT.

SECTIONAL BED BOTTOM.

(Apph 1: ma; 27 1900 (No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 656,4". Patented Aug. 2|, I900.

J. P. LEGGETT. SEGTIUNAL BED BOTTOM.

(Applicati )n flied Jan. 27, 1900.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet z.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH P. LEGGETT, OF OARTHAGE, MISSOURI.

SECTIONAL BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,411, datedAugust21, 1900.

Application filed January 27, 1900. Serial No. 2,952. (No model.)

companying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a sectional bed-bottom composed of pairs ofmetal drop-hangers,

' cross-ties connecting the hangers, longitudinal ties extendinglengthwise of the hangers, and springs supported by said ties.

The invention consists in the construction above stated and in thedetails of arrangement and connection of the spring-bottom.

Figure I is a perspective view of one end of the sectional bed-bottom.Fig. I is a detail view of a slight modification. Fig. II is a side viewshowing the bottom in position applied to a bedstead. Fig. III is a topview of a part of the bed-bottom springs. Fig. IV is a top view of partsof one of the drop-hangers, ties, and lower ends of the springs, theportions being shown in horizontal section, taken on the line IV IV,Fig. I. Fig. V is a crosssectional View taken on the line V V, Fig. IV.Fig. VI is a cross-sectional view taken on the line VI VI,-Fig. IV.

The drop-hangers are composed of flat bars 1, arranged with their edgesupright, having twists 2, vertical arms 3, and lips 4.. The lips 4 areadapted to rest upon the side rails A of the bedstead, as seen in Fig.II, so that the horizontal part of each bar is sustained in a dependingposition beneath the side rails of the bedstead.

5 designates cross-ties connecting the bars 1 of the drop-hangers. Thesecross-ties are threaded through apertures 1 in the hangerbars 1, andhave their ends bent downwardly and upwardly around the lower edges ofthe hanger-bars in the form of loops 7, as clearly seen in Fig.. VI, bywhich arrangement the hanger-bars are securely united with each other.

8 designates longitudinal ties extending lengthwise of the hanger-bars,these longitudinal ties being threaded through apertures 1 in thehanger-bars 1 and having their ends bent downwardly and upwardly aroundthe lower edges of the hanger-bars to form loops 10. (See Fig.V.) Eachcross-tie 5 is formed with a kink 6, located at the intersection of thecrossing longitudinal tie 8, and each longitudinal tie is provided atsaid intersection with a kink 9, whereby the ties are securely heldtogether and any otherwise-liable displacement of the parts is obviated.

11 designates the springs, for which no invention per se is hereinclaimed, the springs being suitably held together at their upper endsand being interwoven about the ties 5 and 8 at the intersections andconnected to the longitudinal ties by loops 12. The ties 5 and 8 may beeither threaded through apertures in the drop hanger-bars, as shown inFig. I, or said ties may be simply seated in notches in the upper edgesof the bars, as suggested in Fig. I It is also obvious that instead ofusing ties of round wire, as shown in the drawings, the ties might be ofany other shape in cross-section.

I claim as my invention 7 1. In a bed bottom, the combination ofhangers, cross-ties connecting said hangers, longitudinal ties connectedto the hangers and extending transversely of said cross-ties, andsprings seated upon said ties at the intersections thereof,substantially as described.

2. In a bed-bottom, the combination of drophangers, cross ties threadedthrough said hangers and looped thereabout, longitudinal ties threadedthrough said hangers and looped thereabout, and extending transverselyof said cross-ties, and springs connected to and seated upon said tiesat the intersections thereof, substantially as described.

JOSEPH P. LEGGETT.

In presence of- E. S. KNIGHT, N. V. ALEXANDER.

